She looked back at me with a red face, "Three o'clock, thank God I hadn't drank much." She said with a relieved smile.While doing my next script, we h...ve automatic refills to start each day, John came in and asked if he could get any hours in. We had told him to give us any extra hours this weekend, but I really had thought it would exclude Sunday, but he was here and said he could work 10 till 12:30 citing an exam he had to study for.I went to my inbox and took out a 2 inch wad of 11 — X 14. We had both gotten salary increases since and we felt we could afford a cheap vacation that year.We were not going to have to spend a lot going as their guests. We took them up on their offer and made arrangements at our jobs.From March until July was a long time.During those months Amy and Carol became closer friends but we saw very little of Carl. He was working a lots of Saturdays and off playing golf on Sundays. Three weeks a month Carl was away from home during the week.On one of the rare. He still had a crewcut, but he was wearing bright red lipstick. Hairy legs, no boobs, no makeup other than the lipstick, he looked terrible. It was obvious that he had been crying. On the film he apologized for what he had done, and went on to describe his situation in vivid terms. Next was Kevin. He was in a room that looked like a nursery, wearing a short satin and velvet dress that was held out by stiff taffeta petticoats. His hair was done in pigtails, red ribbons to match the dress woven. Her weapon, now held not quite pointing at them, looked similar to the one he had in his hand, out of sight behind a bank of readouts. Primitive in outward appearance, but reasonably modern with regard to the clip and cartridge designs. The rifles, though, would look at home with any US Marine unit.Nona, pausing in her attempted calming of the girl (if she indeed was female: it was hard to tell under all that equipment), looked back at him."Her name's Rinda, and she's a bit confused about us.".